Packrat Fiction
Back in college I wrote a story about a girl who meets a scary clown at a circus after getting lost behind the main tent. It wasn’t based on any experience I’d ever had—I loved circuses as a kid. One of my most vivid childhood memories is from a Barnum ... Read More
Fort Lauderdale Is for Lovers
Finally, it was summer. Soon Brie would spend afternoons behind the counter at her father’s bike rental business, signing out beach cruisers to tourists whose expensive cologne stuck to the twenties they peeled from their billfolds. For now, though, the tedium of algebra was past, and so too the excruciating ... Read More